Ask HN: How do you deal with the pain of programming?

Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with the pain of programming? by DarkTree on Friday August 07, 2015 @02:24PM (#10024064)

If it weren't for that stress, I wouldn't be a programmer. It is that variability, and challenge that keeps me coming back and satiates my desire to problem solve. But I understand, in the moment, it is hard to step back and see programming this way.

The only thing I do when feeling stressed, is to physically step back. I walk away from the computer, go on on a run, or get some sleep.

It is often within this absence that the solution to my programming problem emerges.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with the pain of programming? by grover_hartmann on Friday August 07, 2015 @05:19PM (#10025084)

I understand, but combine stress with pressure from your employer, deadlines and such.

And then you get real stress.

That's what I'm referring to, how do you deal with that?

I'm not saying I don't enjoy challenges of solving real problems with programming, I do enjoy them.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with the pain of programming? by mayoff on Friday August 07, 2015 @06:10PM (#10025318)

Why do you think you need to deal with it any differently as a programmer than you would in any other office/desk job?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with the pain of programming? by grover_hartmann on Friday August 07, 2015 @06:19PM (#10025360)

I don't need to deal with it. I asked how most of you deal with it.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with the pain of programming? by macjohnmcc on Friday August 07, 2015 @07:16PM (#10025561)

I agree with this. I like solving problems. Not just typing in line after line of code solving problems I've solved a thousand times before.

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